Open AccessJenseits des "Tarifgitters"
Author(s) -
Michael Wendl
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
prokla
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2700-0311
pISSN - 0342-8176
DOI - 10.32387/prokla.v32i129.685
Subject(s) - economics , politics , globalization , economic system , power (physics) , transformation (genetics) , political economy , economy , political science , market economy , law , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , gene
The crisis and the erosion of the collective wage agreements in Germany are not a result of the transformation of industrial relations through globalization or the transformation to a postfordist model of production. Essential basics are the change in the macroeconomic constellation of politics and economics and a pragmatical reaction of the trade unions. Although the political power of trade unions is threatened fundamentally, they set their hopes on "muddling trough", without concept.